Talált 8047 Eredmények: Lã
For there is a tower in that place, fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it has a rim running around it which on all sides inclines precipitously into the ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 5)
By such a fate it came about that Menelaus the lawbreaker died, without even burial in the earth. (2 Maccabees 13, 7)
But when Judas heard of this, he ordered the people to call upon the Lord day and night, now if ever to help those who were on the point of being deprived of the law and their country and the holy temple, (2 Maccabees 13, 10)
and not to let the people who had just begun to revive fall into the hands of the blasphemous Gentiles. (2 Maccabees 13, 11)
So, committing the decision to the Creator of the world and exhorting his men to fight nobly to the death for the laws, temple, city, country, and commonwealth, he pitched his camp near Modein. (2 Maccabees 13, 14)
he got word that Philip, who had been left in charge of the government, had revolted in Antioch; he was dismayed, called in the Jews, yielded and swore to observe all their rights, settled with them and offered sacrifice, honored the sanctuary and showed generosity to the holy place. (2 Maccabees 13, 23)
Lysias took the public platform, made the best possible defense, convinced them, appeased them, gained their good will, and set out for Antioch. This is how the king's attack and withdrawal turned out. (2 Maccabees 13, 26)
Three years later, word came to Judas and his men that Demetrius, the son of Seleucus, had sailed into the harbor of Tripolis with a strong army and a fleet, (2 Maccabees 14, 1)
Therefore I have laid aside my ancestral glory -- I mean the high priesthood -- and have now come here, (2 Maccabees 14, 7)
When he had said this, the rest of the king's friends, who were hostile to Judas, quickly inflamed Demetrius still more. (2 Maccabees 14, 11)
And the Gentiles throughout Judea, who had fled before Judas, flocked to join Nicanor, thinking that the misfortunes and calamities of the Jews would mean prosperity for themselves. (2 Maccabees 14, 14)
At the command of the leader, they set out from there immediately and engaged them in battle at a village called Dessau. (2 Maccabees 14, 16)
